"pal up" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is an informal expression meaning to become friends or form a close relationship with someone. Example: "After initially not getting along, Sarah and I eventually palled up during our study abroad semester and have been close ever since."
These days Mr Mandelson's circle save much of their vitriol for their old broadsheet friends, and pal up with former enemies at the Sun and the Daily Mail.
Should you throw a quick glance at the viewers, drawing them into sly conspiracy, or pal up with them, in a more sustained act of concord?
To scour the world for little people you can taunt, and then pal up with the hip and rich: that is not an advisable path for any comic to pursue, let alone one as sharp and mercurial as Baron Cohen.
A study of three London primary schools has found that children are more likely to pal up with kids from different ethnic backgrounds than with children who are in a different social class.
The two pal up, play at shoplifting and pay a visit to Ray's brother's kooky Wiccan family, and before you can say Lost in Translation, stifled feelings of romantic yearning begin to stir between these two people at very different points in their lives.
That is, while you're playing the DS version, you can pal up with your friend who's playing the Wii version.
Yes, it's Chiang Ch'ing and her pals, up to their old tricks.
Harry is shown the way to Hogwarts, an English boarding school for wizards run by Professor Dumbledore (Richard Harris), where Harry pals up with the gawky but decent Ron Rupert Grintt) and the bossy, precocious Hermione (Emma Watson).
He's the pained and taciturn star of a pained and taciturn drama about a Chicago hit man who pals up with a lonesome fugitive from an abusive relationship (Kelly Macdonald).
To this end, he pals up with a younger lump, Jason Statham, for the most incendiary scenes; each of them saves a woman in distress, but both concur, in the end, that they get along just fine together as they are, damsel-free.
That if, perhaps, the technology itself somehow leaked out for a brief window of time – at least until Google and pals upped their security – everyone could spy on everyone's else's everything, gifting him the world's biggest smokescreen.
